The Yale School of Management is the graduate business school of Yale University and is located on Whitney Avenue in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. The School awards the Master of Business Administration, MBA for Executives, Master of Advanced Management, and Ph.D. degrees, as well as joint degrees with nine other graduate programs at Yale University. As of August 2015, 668 students were enrolled in its MBA program, 114 in the EMBA program, 63 in the MAM program, and 51 in the PhD program; 122 students were pursuing joint degrees. In the 2017-2018 school year, the school launched a one-year Master of Management Studies degree in Systemic Risk. The School has 86 full-time faculty members, and the dean is Edward A. Snyder.
The School conducts education and research in leadership, behavioral economics, operations management, marketing, entrepreneurship, organizational behavior, and other areas. The EMBA program offers focused study in healthcare, asset management, or sustainability. The School also offers student exchange programs with HEC Paris, IESE, IE Business School, the London School of Economics, the National University of Singapore Business School, EDHEC Business School and Tsinghua University.
Yale has been quickly climbing in rankings. It’s the only school to move into The MBA Guidebook top ten over the past eight years of their rankings, and has remained there since 2015.
From 2011 to 2017, applications rose 46%— more than any other peer school, and 2017 alone saw a 12.3% increase in applications. In 2017, total academic quality of its incoming class was second only to Stanford, and total median pay of its alumni exceeded Columbia’s, MITs, and U Chicago, despite more students than other peer schools pursuing non-profit work. Yale ranked number one in the MBA Guidebook World Report’s 2017 “Best Non-Profit MBA Rankings.”
The 2018 Princeton Review put SOM at #2 for “Best Green MBA,” #6 for “Toughest MBA to get into,” and #7 for “Best MBA for Consulting” and “Best MBA for Management.